James Beard Award winners

Good Food

KCRW

Society & Culture

4.5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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It's Good Food's 2024 James Beard Award winners show! More than three decades after her father passed away, Hetty Liu McKinnon honors him with a tender cookbook about his legacy and her love of vegetables. Abi Balingit, a self-described "dork who baked," turned her passion into a cookbook of Filipino desserts. Becoming a chef wasn't in Jason Hammel's plan but he now operates Chicago's Lula Cafe, a leader in the hospitality industry. Sohla El-Waylly teaches us the "why" behind kitchen techniques. Bill Addison reviews Filipino favorite Kuya Lord, which started as a garage pop-up and now has a brick-and-mortar spot in Melrose Hill.

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0:00.0	From KCRW, I'm Evan Kliman and you're listening to good food.
0:05.0	A few weeks ago, we traveled to Chicago for the James Beard Awards, and we came home so inspired
0:11.1	by the work of our colleagues who took home awards that we've created
0:14.7	an entire show made up of their voices. First up is Hedy McKinnon. In her
0:20.8	award-winning book Tenderheart, she confronts the loss of her father and how his work
0:26.6	shaped her future and food.
0:29.0	Hi, Eddie.
0:30.0	Hi, Evan.
0:31.0	So nice to be with you today.
0:32.8	Oh, we're so happy to have you.
0:35.2	Could you begin by reading from your essay in the book
0:39.9	titled Loss Life and the legacy that lingers?
0:44.3	I would love to.
0:45.4	I'll try and get through it without crying.
0:48.5	Okay.
0:51.0	I have often felt estranged from the person I was before my father died.
0:55.0	So much of my living, my big moments happened in the years following,
0:59.0	graduating from university, getting married, having children, my career and food, moving around the world.
1:06.4	Memory is fragile.
1:07.7	It is not easy to hang on to the voice, the touch, the laughter and the mannerisms of
1:12.0	someone no longer with us.
1:14.0	But living away from home, geographically distant from my mother and my siblings,
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